Quotes

“How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.”

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

″‘How do you like falling in?’ said the princess. ‘Beyond everything,’ answered he; ‘for I have fallen in with the only perfect creature I ever saw.’

As ill-luck would have it ...

Make hay while the sun shines.

Good painters imitated nature while bad ones vomited it.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

He who sings scares away his woes.

The hands and fingers have a good deal to do with stealing; and the history of many a man's life is written by his ten fingers.

When the head aches, all the members share the pain.

That which costs little is less valued.

Liberty ... is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed upon man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall a man.

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Plain as the nose on a man's face.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Delay always breeds danger.

Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.